…nobody expects it to turn into a harrowing adventure!

It began when Alex Maldonado’s father dropped the family’s adorable Maltese, named Nieves, off at PetSmart for the grooming appointment.

The staff fluffed her fur and trimmed her nails and a few hours later, dad returned to retrieve his beloved pet.

Simple, right?

Well, when dad returned home, his kids noticed something was definitely amiss … there was something off about Nieves.

The pup just didn’t seem right to them for some reason.

And that’s when the whole family realized with a tremendous shock:

This wasn’t Nieves!

As it turns out, the store had groomed two toy Maltese dogs that day, and dad had brought home the wrong pet pooch!

The father laughed it off on social media, as the adventure did come to a pleasant end, but everyone wanted to know:

How had his kids recognized the error?

At first, it was tough. Said Alex, one of the sons:

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The poor thing looks sad and beaten … it seems as if he was abandoned on a hot Virginia street corner with nothing to eat or drink.

The Good Samaritan gets a little closer and sees that the animal is scared and a little confused.

Worse still, he can’t move because someone has tied him to a pole with his leash!

Yes, it’s a very sad situation, so this concerned pedestrian quickly calls Richmond Animal Care and Control (RACC).

Animal control officers are on the scene in minutes, and they’re immediately grateful that the Good Samaritan called. Said RACC director Christie Chipps Peters:

“My name is Oreo. I’m over 10 years old. I have anxiety.

My owner died. I’m really good. I need a home.”

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She cautiously goes to her front door; she’s a little nervous because it’s so late…

But she’s very glad she opened that door, because what she finds drops her jaw!

She sees an injured pup, looking both frightened and sad, and she also spots a car speeding away into the night.

In an instant, she knows what happened:

Some cold-hearted person ditched this poor hurt animal on her porch, rang the doorbell, and then disappeared!

The woman quickly brings the terrified pooch inside and calls the RSPCA.

Inspector Phil Norman arrives to collect the injured canine, and at the same time, the woman decides to review the security camera footage from her front yard.

Sure enough, she’d been correct, as Norman said in a press release:

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Like many young girls, she wanted that puppy more than anything in the world.

She dreamed of it so often, she even had a name all picked out when she finally got her little pup: Winston.

For three long years, she begged her mom to get her a “Winston.”

Whenever they saw a puppy, Tatum would point and say, “Look Mom, it’s Winston!”

But her dreams went unfulfilled for a while, so she had to content herself with dogs and pups owned by others.

This includes Tatum’s birthday. The family was eating outside when a friend wandered by carrying an adorable puppy.

The friend held a poochon (a mix between a golden doodle and a bichon frise) and the tiny pup was only a few weeks old.

Of course, Tatum immediately raced over and asked if she could hold the little fella.

The friend obliged and Tatum tenderly cradled the puppy, obviously ecstatic. But she wasn’t half as ecstatic as she was about to be…

Because Tatum’s mother then asked, “What’s his name?”

The friend immediately replied: “Winston!”

At first, Tatum thought it was just a coincidence.

But then her mother leaned over and said, “Happy Birthday,” and Tatum just froze … could those words mean what they thought she meant?

Yes!

It was hers! Mom and her friends had set the whole thing up!

“One week before her actual birthday, my good friend and her son helped us create the big surprise.

They posed as new dog owners of a sweet little poochon.”

Well, that just opened the floodgates. A deliriously happy Tatum could hardly believe it, and she broke down in tears.

You can bet on two things:

First, that Tatum will never forget this particular birthday.

And second, it’s a guarantee that Winston is going to have a wonderful life. Tatum will undoubtedly care for this pup as if he was her own child!

And that’s exactly the way it should be, right?

Source: Honest to Paws

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Maëlle Girard and her boyfriend Gilles Manzato spotted him by the side of the road in Bali, lying in the grass.

The poor little thing had obviously been abandoned and at first, they thought the innocent creature was actually dead.

But then Girard saw that it was breathing, and it was likely just trying to hide in the tall grass. Little guys like him are frequently scared, after all.

After seeing the pup was alive, the couple moved on down the road.

But they couldn’t stop thinking about him.

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This poor homeless 1-year-old husky-cross was found suffering on a street in Palm Valley, Texas.

She had lost most of her fur due to a terrible case of mange, and she also carried a nasty tick disease.

To top it all off, she was severely undernourished.

And though rescuers found her and brought her to a local shelter, Skye’s future was still grim.

Why?

Because at this particular shelter, if a dog is labeled a “medical dog,” they get put on the euthanasia list immediately!

The execution was slated to play out very soon but at the last moment, Rescue Dogs Rock NYC co-founder Stacy Silverstein heard about the case.

As she told The Dodo:

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And nobody could figure out why.

The pups appeared to be in decent condition when they showed up outside the Hospital Aguda in Brazil, but they absolutely refused to leave.

They’d stick around the front of the hospital and occasionally wander in to meet the visitors and staff.

But no matter what, they weren’t going to leave. That much was obvious.

Finally, the nurses decided to look into the matter, to see if they could figure out why the dogs were so insistent on staying.

And what they found out … well, it’ll bring tears to the eyes of all pet lovers everywhere!

The nurses discovered that one of the dogs, named Princess, belonged to a patient that had recently been transferred to that hospital.

The other dog, Scooby, was Princess’ best friend and stayed by her side at all times.

The two somehow knew their sick owner was inside, and they weren’t going to leave him alone!

That’s the tremendous love and loyalty of our four-legged friends, right there.

Well, after the pups were cleared to enter the hospital (a brief checkup was all they needed), the nurses new what to do:

They quickly rushed Princess and Scooby inside, and brought them directly to the bedside of their ailing owner.

That was really what the pooches wanted all along, too, and it was clear they lifted the spirits of the sick man.

As one of the nurses said:

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Maggie is an adorable little Shih Tzu-Chihuahua mix and she likes to wake up her owners when they’re sleeping.

She particularly enjoys waking up her dad, who loves to see Maggie’s shining personality first thing in the morning. As he told The Dodo:

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On June 25, temperatures were soaring and everyone was trying to stay cool. That went double for our furry friends.

But unfortunately, some four-legged creatures aren’t blessed with caring, loving owners.

York City Center police officers got a call that two dogs were trapped inside a blazing hot car, and the owner wasn’t anywhere in sight.

Nobody knew how long the owner had been gone, but it was obvious that both dogs – adorable Labradors – were suffering.

How much longer could the poor pooches last inside that baking metal oven…?

Well, the cops found the doors locked and they couldn’t immediately locate the negligent owner. So, they made a snap decision:

They knew the pups wouldn’t last much longer, and they had to do something drastic…

#PC1810 and PCSO 3680 have just rescued two dogs from a vehicle where the owners had left them for over half an hour in a car in the blazing hot sun. The window was smashed and the owners will be prosecuted by @RSPCAYORK. There is no excuse for this, I am utterly appalled…1/2 pic.twitter.com/xUMWUbzBVK

— NYP York City (@NPTYorkcity) June 25, 2018

In a flash, they smashed the driver-seat window to get into the parked car, and reached the dying dogs!

It was so hot inside the car that even the officers had trouble breathing … can you imagine what it must’ve been like for those poor animals?

The pups were quickly rushed to a nearby veterinarian to be treated for obvious heat exhaustion, and they remained in the care of the RSPCA for quite some time.

And in the meantime, the police department wrote on Twitter that “the owners will be prosecuted,” and added:

“There is no excuse for this, I am utterly appalled…“

The RSPCA also had a response to this terrible event:

“A car can become as hot as an oven very quickly, even when it doesn’t feel that warm.

When it’s 22 degrees (71 °F), in a car it can reach an unbearable 47 degrees (116 °F) within the hour.”

They added that “dogs die in hot cars” and sadly, this happens all the time, in all parts of the world.

But as the police said, there’s just no excuse for this!

Thankfully, the cops acted strongly and just in time … nobody cares about a person’s property when the lives of innocent animals are on the line!

Wouldn’t you agree?

Source: NTD.TV

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The little pup was less than 1 year old and yet, her evil owners must’ve left her tied to that tree for months.

The Staffordshire terrier mix was supposed to have been a guard dog, but nobody ever bothered to care for her.

And because of that, the ailing creature had suffered terribly … both physically and mentally.

Ziva had lost most of her fur due to mange, her body was covered with sores, and her foot pads were rubbed raw.

On top of that, due to the awful situation, she’d become frightened and suspicious of humans.

Well, can you blame her?!

Ziva was quickly taken to a nearby shelter but Barbara Zuluaga, a member of A Chance to Bloom Dog Rescue, knew Ziva needed more.

“Ziva needed to leave the shelter immediately in her immune-suppressed state, so without hesitation, we answered the call for help.”

They weren’t sure if the poor pup could recover, given the fact that the odds were stacked against her.

But it’s amazing to see how a dog can rebound when she’s shown love and affection!

One of the vet technicians, Stephanie Williams, watched over Ziva as she rapidly improved, and said:

“She got to see what it was like to be in a home, and how to eat out of a dog bowl and drink out of a dog water bowl and sleep in a bed and how to jump up on the couch.

She did really, really well overcoming the adversities and the challenges that had been set before her, and I’m proud of her.“

Now, Ziva has made a full recovery. And better yet, she has found a loving foster home with Cassie Rogers!

Cassie also decided to rename the intrepid pooch; her new name is Roxy. And the update is rosy:

“Roxy is doing fabulously.

“She is starting to play with toys, loves food time and treats, snuggles on the couch with us and sleeps in the bed, gives me kisses, and just wants to run and play with the big dogs.

I am in love with her.”

When a four-legged friend suffers through such a horrible nightmare, you pray for rescue. Sometimes, it never happens.

But when it does, the transformation we see in that animal is just beyond words, isn’t it?

Source: The Dodo

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